INTRODUCTION Medical case notes are the only lasting interpretation of a patient-physician interaction and are important for good quality patient care. Accurate, legible and contemporaneous note-keeping is important however it can be substandard. This can lead to errors in handover of patients and to medicolegal vulnerability. We present a comprehensive auditing tool for Trauma & Orthopaedics m...

BACKGROUND In Australia, in an environment undergoing rapidly changing requirements for health services, there is an urgent need for future practitioners to be knowledgeable, skilful and self-motivated in ensuring the quality and safety of their practice. Postgraduate medical education and vocational programs have responded by incorporating training in quality improvement into continuing profes...

These comments about audit, attributed to a conference delegate from Wigan, have a familiar and contemporary ring, although they were published over a decade ago. However, the same views expressed today would have more to do with a growing scepticism about what audit can achieve than with fear of the unknown, as was probably the case then. Although audit seems to be alive and well, with medical...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of an audit and feedback intervention on the accuracy of the diagnosis summary in the medical records of gynecologic patients in Songklanagarind Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHOD An audit was conducted on the medical records of 468 gynecologic patients that visited between January 2006 and March 2007. They were divided into non-malignant and malignant conditions bot...

INTRODUCTION Many alcohol-related problems often go undetected and untreated. In Singapore, no epidemiological studies have been done in general hospitals on alcohol use disorders (AUD), i.e. alcohol dependence and abuse (DSM-IV-TR). Such findings are useful in planning AUD liaison services. In this study, we aim to estimate the prevalence of AUD among non-psychiatric inpatients and to determine...

The medical audit of a mammography practice is a recognized method for evaluating mammography and the accuracy of mammographic interpretation [1-4]. As such, portions of the audit will become integral to the quality assurance activities of every mammography practice under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) of 1992, administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA Interi...

The Irish Medical Practitioners Act 2007 places a statutory obligation on all registered Medical Practitioners to maintain their professional competence by participating in a recognised Professional Competence Scheme. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 48 GPs attending educational meetings to see if doctors had concerns about the Professional Competence Scheme and to ask if they felt th...